Ingredients
For recipe see Italy Revisited/Cookies without Nuts
Directions
Notes
The following text comes from the Italian Wikipedia (Machine google translation): "The susamielli are sweets in the shape of an "S" of Neapolitan cuisine typical of the Christmas period. They are prepared with flour, sugar, almonds and honey and flavored with cinnamon, pepper, nutmeg. A variant, elliptical, are the those that were prepared by the Clare nuns in the convent of Santa Maria della Sapienza in Sorrento. The susamielli are often sold along with raffiuoli, mustaccioli and most popular Rococo, which together with struffoli are typical Neapolitan Christmas sweets.... Original Italian text: SUSAMIELLI I susamielli sono dei dolci a forma di "S" della cucina napoletana tipici del periodo di Natale. Si preparano con farina, zucchero, mandorle e miele, e sono aromatizzati con cannella, pepe, noce moscata. Una variante, di forma ellittica, sono le sapienze che venivano preparate dalle suore clarisse nel convento di Santa Maria della Sapienza a Sorrento.
I susamielli sono spesso venduti insieme a raffiuoli, mustaccioli ed i più popolari roccocò, che insieme agli struffoli sono i dolci tipici del Natale napoletano.
VOrigini Luogo d'origine Italia Italia
Regione Campania
Zona di produzione Soprattutto a Torre del Greco e dintorni Dettagli Categoria dolce
Riconoscimento P.A.T.
Settore Paste fresche e prodotti della panetteria, della biscotteria, della pasticceria e della confetteri.........." P.S. I tried this recipe and found the cookies made with this traditional recipe were very hard, and because of it, not too much to my liking. The name of this sweet, "Susamielli"
sounds very much like the name of another Italian sweet, "susumelle," which describes Calabrian Christmas cookies (for recipe see Italy Revisited/Cookies without Nuts) but it appears that the word, "Susmelle" and sometimes, "susumelle," can also describe horseshoe-shaped miniature calzone from the Abruzzo region (see Italy Revisited/Calconi). The fact is that all these words have, "mielli," in it, and "mielli" sounds a lot like the Italian word for honey, so it is not surprising that a number of sweets from a number of areas in Italy include this word, what is surprising is that the sweets with very similar names don't look anything like each other, nor do they taste similar. Comments and photo: Mary Melfi.
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